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Film/TV Deal: YOU DESERVE TO KNOW by Aggie Blum Thompson

Jul 082026
 

YOU DESERVE TO KNOW by Aggie Blum Thompson has been picked up by Hulu! Nina Dobrev & Paul Wesley from Vampire Diaries are set to star in the adaptation. Alex Cooper, known for Call Your Daddy podcast, will produce and appear in the show as well – in the first and last episode as the interviewer. From Alex Cooper‘s Unwell and Aaron Kaplan‘s Kapital Entertainment.

Written by Grand Hotel developer Brian Tanen based on the 2025 novel by Aggie Blum Thompson, You Deserve to Know follows three suburban couples — next-door neighbors and best friends. When one of their husbands is murdered, a shocking trail of secrets is revealed, and their friendship cracks wide open.

Thompson, whose books also include I Don’t Forgive You, Such a Lovely Family and All the Dirty Secrets, is repped by WME and Katie Shea Boutillier of Donald Maass Literary Agency.

Murderbot Sci-Fi series premieres 5.16.2025!

Mar 072025
 

cover of murderbot diaries volume 1 with apple+ stickerCongratulations to Martha Wells as MURDERBOT has been picked up and made into new sci-fi series! It will make its global debut on Apple TV+ on May 16, 2025! For fans of Wells’s work, don’t forget to tune-in to experience this world through a new lens!

Starring Emmy Award winner Alexander Skarsgård (“Succession,” “Big Little Lies”), who also serves as executive producer, the 10-episode sci-fi series drops the first two episodes on Friday, May 16, 2025 followed by new episodes every Friday through July 11.

Film deal: Martha Wells The Murderbot Diaries to Apple TV+

Dec 162023
 

Photo By Lisa Blaschke

Deadline: Martha Wells’ bestselling Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning book series The Murderbot Diaries, is being adapted by Chris and Paul Weitz (About a Boy) and Paramount Television Studios.

Apple TV+ has picked up 10 episodes starring and executive produced by Emmy winner Alexander Skarsgård (Succession). The Weitz brothers are writing, directing and producing under their Depth of Field banner. Andrew Miano also executive produces alongside for Depth of Field. David S. Goyer executive produces alongside Keith Levine for Phantom Four. Wells will serve as consulting producer. Wells is represented by Jennifer Jackson at the Donald Maass Literary Agency and WME.

Film Deal: C.L. Polk

Sep 202021
 
Photo of author C.L. Polk

Photo credit: Blake Rothwell

C.L. Polk’s award-winning Kingston Cycle—Witchmark, Stormsong, and Soulstar—is coming to television. 1212 Entertainment has acquired the rights to the series, and has tapped Alyssa Clark (Teen Wolf, Dominion, Servant, The 100) to pen the screenplay.

Polk’s debut novel, Witchmark won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 2019, and was a finalist for that year’s Aurora, Locus, Nebula, and Lambda awards.

Film Deal: Lindsey Rogers Cook

Jun 152021
 

In a preemptive bid, Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment has landed the rights to I Don’t Forgive You, the upcoming debut novel of former police reporter Aggie Blum Thompson.

The book will be adapted into a TV series for cable/streaming, which Kaplan will executive produce with Mandalay’s Peter Guber, a longtime friend and former client at WMA.

A psychological thriller with a female lead, I Don’t Forgive You is about a photographer struggling to fit in among the mom cliques in her new D.C. suburb when she is framed for a neighbor’s murder and must frantically try to uncover who is destroying her life by impersonating her on social media.

Film Deal: Nicole Glover

Jun 032021
 

Film rights to Nicole Glover’s The Conductors have been acquired by Queen Latifah’s Flavor Unit Entertainment in association with the Jim Henson Company, via Geoff Morley at UTA in association with Jennie Goloboy.

Film Deal: Elizabeth Bear

Feb 172021
 

Photo of Elizabeth BearVanessa Taylor and Drew Pearce will adapt Elizabeth Bear’s short story “Dolly” (Asimov’s). Following a competitive bidding war, the project has landed at Apple Studios. Academy Award-nominee Florence Pugh is attached to star. Pugh is repped by CAA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, Curtis Brown and Associates and attorney Ziffren Brittenham. Taylor is repped by ICM Partners, Robert Offer at Sloane Offer Weber Dern. Pearce and his Point of No Return Films is repped by WME and Jim Gilio and Warren Dern at Sloane Offer Weber Dern. Bear is represented by Jennifer Jackson at the Donald Maass Literary Agency and WME.

Film Deal: Elizabeth Bear

May 112020
 

Photo of Elizabeth BearSpyglass Media has acquired dramatic rights to “Covenant”, a short story by Elizabeth Bear, via Sylvie Rabineau at WME in association with Jennifer Jackson.

Set to be adapted by screenwriters Josh Campbell and Matt Suecken, who wrote the screenplay for 10 Cloverfield Lane, the project will be produced by Arts District Entertainment and Spyglass VP Productions. Bear’s story first appeared in Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer’s 2014 anthology Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future.

Film Deal: Nnedi Okorafor

Sep 272017
 

Cover of Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor.Movie/TV rights to Nnedi Okorafor’s World Fantasy Award winning novel Who Fears Death (DAW Books, 2010) to HBO, executive producer George R.R. Martin, via Sylvie Rabineau at WME on behalf of Donald Maass.

Film Deal: Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson

Oct 262015
 

Cover for Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson.Director Sharon Lewis will start shooting a film of Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson this fall. Produced by urbansoul inc, it tells the story of a dystopian Toronto where Ti-Jeanne is chafing under Mami hergrandmother’s overprotective rules. Mami refuses to loosen her hold on Ti-Jeanne until she “sees” her protector spirit, Jab Jab. Ti-Jeanne rejects the spirits and when Tony comes on the scene she falls fast and hard. Ti-Jeanne runs off with Tony to forge a life in the harsh reality of the Burn. A heart wrenching event forces Ti-Jeanne to “see” her spirit and return home…a grown woman.

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